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# Intro to Nx
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Nx is a smart and extensible build framework that helps you develop, test, build, and scale [Angular](/{{framework}}/angular/overview) applications with fully integrated support for modern libraries like [Jest](/{{framework}}/jest/overview), [Cypress](/{{framework}}/cypress/overview), [ESLint](/{{framework}}/linter/eslint), and more.
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## 10-Minute Nx Overview
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<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/cXOkmOy-8dk" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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## Philosophy
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Nx is built on a technology agnostic core that maintains modular units of code and understands the dependency graph between them. Developers comprehend that your app contains two pages that each use a shared button component. Nx uses this same knowledge to provide insights and performance improvements. There's a whole ecosystem of plugins that build on this foundation.
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Nx becomes more valuable as you scale, solving problems that are frustrating for small teams, but paralyzing for large teams.
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Nx works especially well for [monorepos](/{{framework}}/core-concepts/why-monorepos). Each new app added to a monorepo provides more opportunities to share code and tooling but that often comes at the cost of a compounding slowdown in the CI pipeline. Nx ensures that adding another app to the repo does not increase the existing app’s test or build time.
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## Features
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- Test (or builds or lints) only the projects [affected](/{{framework}}/cli/affected) by a code change.
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- [Cache](/{{framework}}/core-extended/computation-caching) command output locally so that future runs on the same code happen in seconds. The paid [Nx Cloud](https://nx.app) offering allows this cache to be shared across every developer in your organization.
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- Provide a consistent syntax for [executing commands](/{{framework}}/executors/using-builders). `nx build my-app` works no matter what framework `my-app` uses.
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- Automate code modification tasks with [generators](/{{framework}}/cli/affected).
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- Access a thriving ecosystem of [plugins](/{{framework}}/generators/using-schematics) from Nrwl and the [community](/nx-community).
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## Learn Nx Fundamentals
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- [Interactive Nx Tutorial (with videos)](/{{framework}}/tutorial/01-create-application)
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- [Free Nx Course on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=49&v=2mYLe9Kp9VM&feature=emb_logo)
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- [45-Minute Walkthrough on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5FIGDn5YM0)
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## Dive Deep
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- [Nx CLI](/{{framework}}/getting-started/nx-cli)
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- [Configuration Files](/{{framework}}/core-concepts/configuration)
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- [Computation Caching](/{{framework}}/core-extended/computation-caching)
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- [Rebuilding What is Affected](/{{framework}}/core-extended/affected)
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